insanable

From Latin īnsānābilis. Compare Old French insanable. See in- (“not”) +‎ sanable.

insanable (comparative more insanable, superlative most insanable)

1. Not capable of being healed, incurable, irremediable.

   Synonym: sanable

   • 1921, Frank Moore Colby, The Margin of Hesitation, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, →OCLC, page 132:

     […] by the Cirrhæan spikes, by the boiled head of my own baby served in Egyptian vinegar, I curse the whole insanable cacoëthical cohort of scriptitating—

• “insanable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• nebalians

• IPA^(key): /insaˈnable/ [ĩn.saˈna.β̞le]
• Rhymes: -able
• Syllabification: in‧sa‧na‧ble

insanable m or f (masculine and feminine plural insanables)

1. insanable; uncurable

   Synonym: incurable

• “insanable”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024